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Description:
TurboDownload is also known as both PopUp Killer and IE Driver. It displays contextual advertising to the end user, installs software and services and self-updates silently. IEDriver is bundled with UrlBlaze.
How do you get
it?
TurboDownload is bundled with a program called URLBlaze and can also be distributed through any one of their affiliate sites: MP3 MTV, MP3 Media World, and Clustone. It is downloaded from the company website and installed on the users home computer.
Note: I've had an email from the folks at Unite the Cows who were unaware that they were listed as an affiliate at URLBlaze. To that end, I'm not sure if the other sites listed as affiliates are aware of it either. Please let me know if further corrections need to be made by contacting me through the forum's PM system. Sinoed .
Details:
TurboDownload and its variants deliver contextual advertising to the end user. It is displayed on your PC based on a profile it builds about your surfing habits. This means that it collects information from your computer while you browse the internet. It can also detect events, create windows to display additional information on a viewed page, monitor messages and actions. This program even offers the following information about its purpose on your computer, including installing programs without your consent and silently self -updating:
"We may modestly deliver highly relevant offers in many ways including but not limited to the following:
- Embedded offers are displayed within some applications.
- Desktop icons and installation files may be placed on your computer that link to other products and services.
- Modest interstitial windows are displayed on your computer desktop."
There are many exploits of this technology which search all pages you view in IE and replace banner advertisements with other ads, monitor and report on your actions, etc.
How does it Violate
Privacy?
To display an advertisement to a user the program matches the keywords entered with an advertiser. The site that is visited and the keywords that are entered can be tracked with cookies. Further, there is no privacy policy on the URL Blaze site, explaining the further use and/or distribution of the information that they collect although it does state some of the other less desirable traits in the EULA.
Are
there any known security issues?
TurboDownoad is capable of automatically self-updating silently, installing software programs and services and collecting personal information about your surfing habits.
Stability
problems:
None
known at this time.
Terminating TurboDownload:
TurboDownload (IEDriver) is known to contain the following files: IEDriver.exe, IEUpdate.exe, IEDriver.bin, iedclean.exe, td.exe, uninstall.exe
- Click on START > RUN and type "regedit". Click "OK" to start the registry editor.Start the registry editor. This is done by clicking Start then Run. (The Run dialog will appear.) Type regedit and click OK. (The registry editor will open.)
- Using the directory tree browse to the key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Run
- In the right pane, delete the value called IEDriver, if it exists.
- Exit the registry editor and restart your computer.
- Locate the "IEDriver" directory on your computer, it can usually be found with your system directory followed by \IEDriver\
- Delete this folder and its contents.
TurboDownload (IEDriver) can also be removed with both Pest Patrol and Adaware.
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